This Jane Austen blog brings Jane Austen, her novels, and the Regency Period alive through food, dress, social customs, and other 19th C. historical details related to this topic.

Favorite Regency Fashion Sites

The clothing that families have saved over the centuries were usually those items that were special or particularly treasured. This blog - Trouvais – features samples of the most lush 18th and 19th clothing imaginable. Combined with luxury items of today, the site is a feast for the eyes.

Detail, early 19th c. redingote

Meg Andrews is another site worth visiting. Delectible clothing and items from the past are featured. Visiting the site makes you feel as if you have entered a museum.

Striped cotton dress, 1810

David Brass Rare Books may seem like an odd site to feature as a fashion site, but its rare and illustrated colored books show images of people in the past. One can easily concentrate on the Regency period and have plenty to view. One image, which I have shown previously, is from a book entitled The Fashions of London and Paris, 1798-1810.

Close up, Promenade in Kensington Gardens, 1804

I must also brag a little about my site. I don’t feature commentary about every facet of fashion like Cathy Decker, but I have gathered an extensive list of links . You may click on Social Customs During the Regency Era in the tab above and scroll down to fashions, or view the fashion links to the right in my sidebar, where such gems as Vintage Textiles sit. You can also read my fashion posts at this tagged link: Regency Fashion. Enjoy!

Sold Directoire dress from Vintage Textiles

Five Old Things showcases three posts of a trip to the Costume Museum in Bath. The three posts are heavy with images, like this one of an 18th century man’s coat, embroidered waistcoat and pants.

Hi Vic. Thank you for mentioning me. It’s so wonderful to come over here and see how much you bring Jane Austen’s Regency world to life. And Georgette Heyer! I loved her when I was in high school. Looking forward to rereading. Love your blog…thank you for all the effort you put into it. Trish

Just found your site and am looking for house plans from the movie P&P with kirea knightly, the Bennet home. Looking for the fabric and furniture and of course the house…………..plans are with so many halls Im lost as to how to duplicate this house at Longbourn. any leads would be appreciated.

wear loads of dark and bright colors like orange goes owsum with blue,grey and purple to have a cozy and safer feeling in the season of hot and cold.i’d like to mention Leigh Lezark’s unique style and Erin Wasson to get a cindy crawford feeling and girl olivia and Nicky Hilton are next to mention.

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Hello, my name is Vic and I live in Richmond, VA. I work in program and professional development at Virginia Commonwealth University, and I have adored Jane Austen almost all of my life. I am a proud lifetime member of the Jane Austen Society of North America. This blog is a personal blog written and edited by me. I do not accept any form of cash advertising, sponsorship, or paid topic insertions. However, I do accept and keep books, DVDs and CDs to review.

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Irresistible Attraction

An online Regency novel in serialized form. Click here to read a new chapter of Irresistible Attraction each week, and follow the story of Amanda Sinclair and James Cavendish, the Earl of Downsley.

My Regency Tea Cup Review Ratings

Five Regency tea cups: The book is not perfect (few books are), but it was well worth its purchase and possesses many outstanding qualities that makes it stand head and shoulders above its counterparts.

Four Regency tea cups: This book offered many hours of pleasant reading, and I found I could not put it down.

Three Regency tea cups: Damned with faint praise. I put the book down often, but was intrigued enough to finish it. In this instance, the movie might be better.

Two Regency tea cups: This book required major changes that the author and editor should have fixed before publishing deadline.

One Regency tea cup: Oh dear. I do so feel for the trees that sacrificed their lives for this verbal garbage.